Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Establishing several firsts, a hospital in London used genetically engineered bacteriophages to successfully ...

Just because you are exposed to a pathogen does not mean you will become sick. Increasingly, scientists have shown that genetics play a central role in determining whether the pathogens that cause a ...

MicuRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("MicuRx"), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing novel anti-infective therapies for drug-resistant bacterial infections, recently announced ...

Global pharmaceutical major Lupin Limited has entered into a strategic collaboration with TB Alliance to advance the clinical development and commercialization of the investigational drug Telacebec, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among patients with cystic fibrosis, increases in sulfate and specific metals in water raised the odds for ...

Subgroups of tuberculosis-causing bacteria can persist even when antibiotics wipe out most of the population. The need to eliminate these persistent subpopulations is one reason why TB treatment ...

In a classic example of scientific problem solving, scientists from the Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery and Innovation (CDI) and colleagues have published a paper introducing a promising new ...

Mycobacterium abscessus can cause dangerous lung infections. Treatment usually requires a combination of antibiotics for more than a year. Researchers in China report that curcumin, found in turmeric, ...

Lydia Mosi receives funding from World Bank, Wellcome Trust, Afrique One, University of Ghana Research Fund, TWAS, IFS. Buruli ulcer is a skin infection that kills the cells and tissue in an affected ...

In a new study, researchers from the Centre for BioSystems Science & Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have found that bacteriophages can offer a possible solution to fend off ...